When they met online, it was as if they’d known each other forever.

A beautiful, sad, and yet hopeful story about a first — and last — date.

Death was coming. I could sense it in the room. But I also felt something comforting, too. Something that told me that I could do this, that I could help Yves ease from this life to whatever was to follow. I had always thought I’d be a panicked mess in a moment like this, but all I felt was stillness. It was like watching a home movie of someone I recognized as me but didn’t know.